Travel Guide Szilvásvárad

A few kilometres after Bélapátfalva on Highway 2506. In Hungary, Szilvásvárad is considered to be the homeland of the lipizzan horse, which has been high for over four hundred years. There are only five stud in the world that raise lipizzans. Here in Szilvásvárad, in the middle of the pastures and forests of the Bükk Mountains, the lipizzans live in conditions similar to those of their region of origin, Lipizza (currently Lipica in Slovenia), a small village near Trieste, which was part of the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and where, in 1580, the first lipizzans rearing stud was established for the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. the Royal House of the Habsburg. It's in the corner of some scenes of the Film film of Bergerac (1990) made by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Depardieu, who would have— he said— much loved Hungary.